Download or read book Creating the Conditions for Sustainable Community Forestry in B C microform a Case Study of the Kaslo and District Community Forest written by Jennifer Gunter and published by National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada. This book was released on 2000 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Community Forestry in Canada written by Sara Teitelbaum and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2016-07-28 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent decades, community forestry has taken root across Canada. Locally run initiatives are lauded as welcome alternatives to large corporate and industrial logging practices, yet little research has been done to document their tangible outcomes or draw connections between their ideals of local control, community benefit, ecological stewardship, and economic diversification and the realities of community forestry practice. This book brings together the work of over twenty-five researchers to provide the first comparative and empirically rich portrait of community forestry policy and practice in Canada. Tackling all of the forestry regions from Newfoundland to British Columbia, it unearths the history of community forestry, revealing surprising regional differences linked to patterns of policy-making and cultural traditions. Case studies celebrate innovative practices in governance and ecological management while uncovering challenges related to government support and market access. The future of the sector is also considered, including the role of institutional reform, multiscale networks, and adaptive management strategies.
Download or read book Learning and the Production of Environmentality in Community Forestry in British Columbia written by Aaron Janzen and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Community forestry emerged in response to criticism of the industry-dominated governance of forests. Community forest were viewed as a vehicle for greater local participation in forestry. The purpose of this research was to investigate how participation and social learning influence community forest governance in British Columbia, Canada. This study used an environmentality lens to describe community forest governance and investigate how participation and learning influenced the emergent community forest governance. Data was collected through a qualitative case study focused on the Kaslo and District Community Forest Society and involved semi-structured interviews with board and society members, document review, and participant observation. Disciplinary and neoliberal environmentalities were identified as influential to community forest governance at Kaslo and the participation and social learning that occurred. Findings indicated that participation and learning outcomes have resulted in community forest governance that replicates disciplinary and neoliberal environmentalities, characterized by the professionalization of community forestry management and community acceptance of increasing timber harvesting rates.
Download or read book Community Forest Management as a Carbon Mitigation Option Case Studies written by Daniel Murdiyarso and published by CIFOR. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Community Forestry written by Ryan C. L. Bullock and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-06-28 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing a critical and incisive examination of community forestry, this is a detailed study of complex issues in local forest governance, community sustainability and grassroots environmentalism. It explores community forestry as an alternative form of local collaborative governance in globally significant developed forest regions, with examples ranging from the Gulf Islands of British Columbia to Scandinavia. Responding to the global trend in devolution of control over forest resources and the ever-increasing need for more sustainable approaches to forest governance, the book highlights both the possibilities and challenges associated with community forestry implementation. It features compelling case studies and accounts from those directly involved with community forestry efforts, providing unique insight into the underlying social processes, issues, events and perceptions. It will equip students, researchers and practitioners with a deep understanding of both the evolution and management of community forestry in a pan-national context.
Download or read book Creating Community forestry Partnerships written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Working Through Conflict Two Examples of Agreement in Community Forests written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Developing a community forest in British Columbia involves multiple stakeholder agreements; negotiating agreement within diverse communities can be especially complicated. In this study I use the constant comparative method from grounded theory to compare data from two case studies and examine the conflict resolution techniques used by community forest developers throughout their development initiatives. Data were collected through interviews with community forest developers with a focus on the process of development, the conflict resolution strategies used, and the successes and failures throughout the process. The findings from this thesis indicate that community forest developers engage in a process that I call Developing a Community Forest. This process includes five categories of action: Building an Idea of Community Forestry, Being Aware of the Box, Coming Toward Conflict, Using Dispute Resolution Strategies, and Practicing Community Forestry. By articulating this process future community forest developers can access the methods of conflict resolution described in this thesis in their attempts to successfully develop community forestry in other local forest areas.
Download or read book An Analysis of the Potential for Community Forestry in New Brunswick written by Matthew George Betts and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Learning for Sustainability Through Community Forest Management written by Anderson Assuah and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Community forestry is considered a collaborative governance approach that notionally provides local communities with some decision-making authority about forest management, as well as being promoted as a promising approach for ensuring forest sustainability and encouraging social learning among participants. Based on these potential benefits, this research investigated how collaboration and learning can help in managing community forests sustainably. The research involved a qualitative case study, focused on the Wetzinkwa Community Forest Corporation (WCFC) located in Smithers, British Columbia. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews with WCFC participants, forest tours, participant observation, and document review. The results indicate that individual and social learning did occur through collaborating on forest management issues such as sustainable forest management and benefit distribution. Further, the data shows the WCFC was making progress in sustainably managing the forest through efforts such as protecting forest under-story and embarking on a project to ensure forest health and resiliency.
Download or read book Growing Socioeconomic Sustainability Through Community Based Forest Management in British Columbia written by Anne M. Rooban and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite widespread reports of the benefits of Community-Based Forest Management, there is little empirical evidence regarding socioeconomic outcomes for local communities. The purpose of my research was to consider the extent of innovation and sustainability in Community Forestry approaches in British Columbia, Canada. Data was collected through a qualitative case study focusing on the Lower North Thompson Community Forest Society and the Wells Gray Community Forest Corporation, and involved document review, participant observation and interviews with community members. Key socioeconomic benefits identified were additional silviculture, local employment, local participation, grant distribution, and strategic partnerships. Although increased local control through grants increases quality of life, innovative practices and diversification opportunities are underdeveloped and require greater policy support to ensure continued success. Findings point to community forests as holding potential to increase the socioeconomic sustainability of local communities, which could make them key players in support for rural areas beyond forestry.
Download or read book Getting More from our Forests Ten Proposals for Building Stability in BC s Forestry Communities written by Ben Parfitt and published by Canadian Centre Policy Alternatives. This book was released on 2005 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The CCPA would like to thank the following organizations for their financial contributions to this work: The BC Federation of Labour, The BC Government and Service Employees Union, The Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union, Endswell Fund of Tides Canada Foundation, The Pulp, Paper and Woodworkers of Canada, and The United Steelworkers of America District 3. Getting More from Our Forests: T [...] The end result is that from Hazelton in the northwest Interior, to the banks of the Fraser River in South Vancouver, to Youbou on the shores of Cowichan Lake on Vancouver Island, mills were closed and the companies who operated them were allowed to retain their tenured Crown timber holdings. [...] Of the five significant mergers to occur in the industry in 2004 and 2005, three involved companies with major Interior forest tenure holdings and one resulted in what is now, by far, the largest forest company in the province. [...] Today, Canfor operates the largest production softwood lumber mill in the world at Houston, BC.4 The company had record profit in 2004 of $420.9 million, and is in the process of building another lumber mill in not-too-distant Vanderhoof that will rival the Houston mill in output.5 The Houston mill's high efficiency helped propel Canfor into the upper echelon of the world's top-performing forest c [...] And he hopes that the province will see the value in what he is doing and give him assured access to timber through a long-term licence agreement, similar to the licences held by the major companies in the region.
Download or read book Growing Community Forests written by Ryan Bullock and published by Univ. of Manitoba Press. This book was released on 2017-10-13 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Canada is experiencing an unparalleled crisis involving forests and communities across the country. While municipalities, policy makers, and industry leaders acknowledge common challenges such as an overdependence on US markets, rising energy costs, and lack of diversification, no common set of solutions has been developed and implemented. Ongoing and at times contentious public debate has revealed an appetite and need for a fundamental rethinking of the relationships that link our communities, governments, industrial partners, and forests towards a more sustainable future. The creation of community forests is one path that promises to build resilience in forest communities and ecosystems. This model provides local control over common forest lands in order to activate resource development opportunities, benefits, and social responsibilities. Implementing community forestry in practice has proven to be a complex task, however: there are no road maps or well-developed and widely-tested models for community forestry in Canada. But in settings where community forests have taken hold, there is a rich and growing body of experience to draw on. The contributors to Growing Community Forests include leading researchers, practitioners, Indigenous representatives, government representatives, local advocates, and students who are actively engaged in sharing experiences, resources, and tools of significance to forest resource communities, policy makers, and industry.
Download or read book Evaluating BC s Community Forest Agreement Program as a Tool for Source Water Protection written by Lauren Rethoret and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The government of British Columbia introduced the Community Forest Agreement program (CFAP) in 2003. The program offers opportunities for communities to gain a degree of control over their surrounding forests through a form of timber tenure. Some communities have acquired a Community Forest Agreement with the intention of using it to protect the watersheds that provide their drinking water. This study evaluates the opportunities provided by the CFAP for source water protection and seeks to understand what changes communities and government could make to improve these opportunities. The experiences of the Harrop-Procter, McBride, and Creston community forests are used as case studies. The study concludes that community forests have been successful at protecting their source watersheds over the short term through the CFAP. It also recommends changes to forest planning approaches, governance arrangements, business structures, and tenure arrangements that could help improve long-term opportunities for community-based source water protection.
Download or read book Forest Community Connections written by Ellen Mary Donoghue and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2008. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Download or read book Community Forestry Working Plan 1997 2000 written by Gerrit Valkeman and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Planning a Sustainable Approach to Community Forest Management with the Katzie First Nation at Blue Mountain and Douglas Provincial Forests written by Anna Cecilia Usborne and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The British Columbia Community Forest Agreement program (CFA), founded by the province in 1998, provides a forestry tenure option for communities to engage in, and benefit from, local forestry activities. As the program grows, First Nations are increasingly applying for CFA tenures to gain management control over traditional forested territory and to provide economic and social benefits to their communities. Despite increased Aboriginal interest in community forestry, the opportunities and challenges associated with engagement in the CFA program have yet to be evaluated from a First Nations' perspective. Through a case-study of the forest management priorities of the Katzie First Nation of the lower Fraser Valley, B.C., this study examines how the needs and priorities of B.C. Aboriginal communities can be met through CFA policy. The study concludes with recommendations for First Nations and CFA policy administrators to generate effective community forest agreements suited to First Nation participation.
Download or read book Community Forestry written by British Columbia. Ministry of Forests and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
